Parents of three girls from Ekiti
State who were allegedly given three slots to travel to Dubai but ended in a
slave camp in Libya are demanding the safe return of their children.

They made the call on Thursday at
the State Police Command where a suspect who facilitated their trip, Dada
Ogundare, was paraded.

Ogundare was paraded alongside a
prophetess, Omoseeke Komolafe, who collected money from their parents and gave
same to the trafficking suspect.

The suspects claimed that they
only assisted the young ladies, one of whom was pregnant, to seek employment
outside the country not knowing that they would end up as slaves.

The victims left Nigeria on
November 25 by road rather than by air as they were promised that they were
going to Dubai only to be taken to Libya where they were sold as slaves.

The parents explained that they
later made attempt to bring their children back home but the traffickers in
Libya demanded N1.2 million from them.

One of the parents, Mrs. Margaret
Olorunfemi, revealed that she and Prophetess Komolafe are members of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the same ward with deputy governor in
Ikere-Ekiti.

Mrs. Olorunfemi disclosed that
Prophetess Komolafe told her daughter that the deputy governor has been given
four slots to be given to children of party members in his ward to travel to
Dubai adding that they were told to make N150,000 available to facilitate the
trip.

The woman said she was worried
when she did not hear from her daughter. According to her, she was able to
speak with her daughter on December 10 who told her that she was in a slave
camp in Libya.

Mrs Olorunfemi said: “My child
called that the prophetess had sold her into slavery that we should go and meet
the deputy governor that we should get N1.2 million before they can be freed
from slavery.”

Another Ikere woman whose
daughter was trapped in Libyan slave camp, Mrs. Feyisayo Adedayo, revealed that
her daughter is pregnant.

She said: “My daughter,
Ayomiotan, spoke with me on phone that they went through the desert and not by
flight as they were promised.

“I don’t have N1.2 million to
send to them to free my daughter. (Ekiti State) Government should return my
daughter to me with her pregnancy.

“She (daughter) is my only girl
and my last born; I reported the case at the police station in Ikere. I want my
daughter back because I don’t want her to die in slave camp.”

Another parent of Libya slavery
from Ikere, Mrs. Bukola Bamise said she was shocked to learn that her daughter
had been sold as a slave.

She said: “It was the deputy
governor that said he wanted to use the four slots given to his ward to benefit
our children but I was shocked to learn that they were camped somewhere and
they had been sold as

slaves.”

The suspected trafficker,
Ogundare, told reporters that she contacted the prophetess to help her find
girls interested in jobs in Libya. He claimed he didn’t collect money from the
victims.

Ogundare explained that his wife
and younger sister are in Libya added that she told the prophetess to inform
the girls’ parents of their destination.

He said: I didn’t collect One
Naira from anybody, I have so far taken four persons to Libya while madam
(prophetess) had taken nine persons to Libya.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police
in charge of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Mr Julius Okoro, warned
parents against allowing their children embark on questionable trips.

He said: “The girls were
trafficked to Libya on the pretext that they were taking them to Dubai.
Information reached their parents that they are suffering and they had been
sold out in the slave camp in Libya.

“One of the girls trafficked to
Libya is pregnant but was rejected by those buying them because of her
pregnancy. We understand that they are suffering seriously in Libya.

“Our advice to parents is that
they should be careful of those they entrust their children to. Let them be
careful and be sure of the persons they are handing over their children to.”

Parents that have failed in their responsibilities. These people claim to be suffering, yet they were able to raise the huge funds to travel out, why not put the money to good use, buying and selling instead.